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March 08, 2011

I wanted to thank everyone for their opinions regarding the wedding gift!! I really appreciate the feedback I got. I am going to work with the color saturation one (aka the third one) and place those over the top of black and white photos of memorable places we've been and things we like to do. At least that is currently the plan, and seeing as how I don't have any photos to update you with my progress yet, I took a photo of some cake toppers I made for my wedding instead!

March 01, 2011

I was pondering at work today what I would like to give Danial... (and myself) for our wedding present and I came up with an idea that I'm pretty pleased with. It would be a mixed media piece, fairly large in scale... lots of texture... basically a large scale collage. I would like to spell out the word LOVE with four of our favorite photos of us together and was trying to decide how I should go about it.

Here are my three options shown with the L:

Option One: Black and white just an increase in contrast.

Option 2: All the same photo, no variations.

Option 3: Black and white to the full color, an increase in saturation.

February 27, 2011

I recently picked up the newest issue of Somerset Studio and am completely crazy about it. I have spent much of my lazy Sunday being sick with a cold and happily curled up with my fiancé sniffling and reading about techniques on how to recreate all the lovely visual eye candy.

Then I read the letter from the editor-in-chief and director of publishing Christen Olivarez. She wrote about dreams and vision. Something in her letter really hit home for me and I'm sure thousands of other people as well, she said

"...We busy ourselves with big dreams about the day we'll do them all. Then we sit back and wait. And wait. There's a big problem with that, though. A big problem. Dreaming isn't the same as doing. As a big dreamer myself, I know that dreams seem so big and so impossible that we can become paralyzed by them. We have so many great ideas and goals that we manage to not accomplish anything. How do we avoid getting into this rut so that we can make our dreams a reality? The answer is simple: do something. No matter what it is, the first step is simply to do..."